Hey @Murlocke, figured this is old by now since I totally crashed out around noon but yeah, finally got shipping confirm here too. A few hours after the order but yay .

Yeah i forgot to mention that i also got shipping confirmation. Something is just wrong with their computer system as both the regular Confirmation Email and the Shipping Email were BOTH not received at all; and only appeared after i called Nvidia and they manually sent it several more times. Had to call Nvidia TWICE before the original confirm email showed up.

That backplate does look nice. But I have to say. After using an aquacomputers active cooled backplate on my Titan Xs, and seeing 8000MHz memory never exceed 55C even after hours of gameplay, I'm a total advocate for active cooled back plates.

No solid overclocking attempts in any reviews unfortunately. Though 1950MHz with 50% fan speed gives a lot of hope for 2200MHz under water with modified bios. I'd have stuck an AC unit on the card just to see how well it handles clocks if kept cold. To give a better idea of clocks under water, minus power target throttling issues.

Performance wise it looks to be exactly where we thought. OC Benches, once they come in, should be awesomely good but predictable given what we know about (Pascal/1080).

Watching the crazy 3500+ posts on this card reminds me of this scene in the brilliant movie Seven.

- Brad Pitt, "What's in the box?!"

- Morgan Freeman, (to Helicopter in the sky a mile away) "Listen... listen to me. Whatever you do... don't come in here. Stay away. No matter what you hear, do not move in! John Doe has the upper hand.

- Brad Pitt

In this case I see Nvidia as Keven Spacey (John Doe) leading some of us in the GPU enthusiast community right along... You had no choice but to pull the trigger